New Orleans in fiction
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The city of New Orleans, Louisiana is featured in a number of works of fiction. This article in an ongoing effort to list the many books, movies, television shows, and comics that are set in - whole or partly - New Orleans.
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[edit] Books
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories by Tom Piazza (first short story "Brownsville" is set in New Orleans)
- Clarimonde by Napier Bartlett (features a Creole tale and a description of New Orleans during the American Civil War)
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Dinner at Antoine's by Francis Parkinson Keyes
- The Grandissimes by George Washington Cable
- Junkie by William Burroughs
- Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (Chapter XLI: "The Metropolis of the South")
- Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice
- Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost (features the early French colony at New Orleans at one point in the book)
- Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts
- Monsieur Motte by Grace King
- Mosquitoes and Pylon by William Faulkner (the latter novel takes place in "New Valois," a thinly disguised New Orleans)
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
- Twelfth Night by Michael Llewellyn
- New Orleans, Mon Amour by Andrei Codrescu
- Paul Marchand, F.M.C. by Charles Chesnutt
- The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
- Violets and Other Tales and The Goodness of Saint Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
- The Crystal City by Orson Scott Card (features an alternate-history version of New Orleans in which it is controlled by the Spanish and called 'Nueva Barcelona' or 'Barcy')
- The Dark-Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Authors who have repeatedly or frequently used New Orleans as a setting for their fiction include Poppy Z. Brite, Truman Capote, Nancy A. Collins, Barbara Hambly, Lafcadio Hearn, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Anne Rice, and Tennessee Williams.
[edit] Comic Books and Graphic Novels
- The nonfiction webcomic A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge is about six real-life residents of New Orleans and their experiences before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina.
- In the DC Comics fictional universe, New Orleans has been given a neighboring city, St. Roch, Louisiana, serving as an occasional home to the original Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
- In the Marvel Comics fictional universe, New Orleans is the home city for the X-man Gambit, as well as the guilds of Thieves and Assassins; as well as the leader of the latter guild, Belladonna Boudreaux.
- The Marvel Comics heroine Monica Rambeau, known as Captain Marvel II and Photon, is from New Orleans.
- In the Marvel Max comic Hellstorm—Son of Satan, post-Katrina New Orleans is the setting.
[edit] Film
- Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
- All Dogs Go to Heaven
- A Love Song for Bobby Long
- Angel Heart
- Belle of the Nineties
- The Big Easy
- Blaze
- The Buccaneer (1938)
- The Buccaneer (1958)
- Cat People
- The Cincinnati Kid
- The Client
- Déjà Vu
- Double Jeopardy
- Down by Law
- Easy Rider
- Failure to Launch
- Father Hood
- The Flame of New Orleans
- The Frog Princess-announced by Walt Disney Pictures
- Hard Target
- Hard Times (1975 film)
- Interview with the Vampire
- Jezebel
- JFK 1991
- King Creole
- Lady from Louisiana
- Last Holiday
- Live and Let Die
- A Murder of Crows
- Mr.3000
- Miller's Crossing—the location of the city where the fictional events take place is never specified, but the scenes were filmed in New Orleans.
- New Orleans
- Obsession
- Panic in the Streets
- The Pelican Brief
- Pretty Baby
- Ruby Bridges
- Runaway Jury
- The Savage Bees
- The Skeleton Key
- Stay Alive—the location of the city where the fictional events take place is never specified, but the scenes were filmed in (and around) New Orleans.
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Tightrope
- The Toast of New Orleans
- Toys in the Attic
- Tune In Tomorrow
- Undercover Blues
- The Wacky World of Dr. Morgus
- Walk on the Wild Side
- Wild at Heart
- Zandalee
[edit] Television
[edit] Star Trek
- Star Trek:Deep Space Nine character Benjamin Sisko is a native of New Orleans. His father Joseph Sisko is also a native of New Orleans, and has a restaurant near Jackson Square in the 2370s. The family restaurant is seen in the episodes "Homefront", "Paradise Lost", "Tears of the Prophets", "Image in the Sand" and Shadows and Symbols". Other episodes to be set in New Orleans include "The Visitor".
- New Orleans is also mentioned in the episodes "Equilibrium", "Explorers", "Family Business" and "What You Leave Behind".
- The New Orleans class starship is named for the city.
[edit] The Simpsons
- New Orleans is the setting of the Simpsons spinoff, "Chief Wiggum P.I.," starring Chief Wiggum.
- New Orleans is also the setting for "Oh! Streetcar!," a musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire.
[edit] The X-Files
The X-Files character Monica Reyes worked for the FBI in New Orleans before becoming John Doggett's partner.
[edit] Other television references
Several episodes of television series have referenced the city:
- An episode of Jem and the Holograms was set in New Orleans, respectively.
- The short-lived 1997 CBS series Orleans was set in New Orleans.
- Season 9 (2000) of The Real World was set in New Orleans.
- In a 2001 episode of Seven Days, Parker goes to New Orleans to prove that his friend, who is scheduled to be executed, is innocent.
- In a 2003 episode of The Drew Carey Show, Drew and his buddies set off on a road trip to New Orleans to find a girl he met after placing an ad on a beer bottle.
- In a 2004 episode of Las Vegas called "New Orleans", Danny, Ed and Sam head to New Orleans in search of a big gambler who owes the casino money.
- In a 2005 episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, the detectives pursue a child molester who kidnapped three young sisters from New Orleans after their parents were killed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
- Frank's Place
- In a 2005 episode of Bones, Dr. Temperance Brennen and Agent Seely Booth head to New Orleans to help identify bodies found after Hurricane Katrina. The plot revolves heavily around the underground voodoo practices in the city.
- In a 2007 episode of "Boston Legal", Denny Crane and Alan Shore visit New Orleans to defend a doctor accused of euthenizing patients.[1]
- In 2007 Fox debuted the series K-Ville, which focuses on the New Orleans police department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
- Monica Dawson a character on the NBC television series Heroes lives in New Orleans. She has recently discovered that she has the special ability to muscle mimic. Her parents were killed in Hurricane Katrina. She lives with her Nana, brother and cousin Micah Sanders who also has special abilities, which demonstrates the genetic link between the Heroes displaying powers.
[edit] Theater/Opera
- A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is famously set in the city of New Orleans and the city itself plays a major role in the play.
- Manon Lescaut, opera by Giacomo Puccini based on the Antoine François Prévost (Abbé Prévost) novel. The last scene (Act IV) is set in New Orleans, then a French colony, where Manon dies in Des Grieux's arms.
[edit] Videogames
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, a 1993 adventure game for PC, is set in the city of New Orleans.
- Skateboarding game Tony Hawk's Underground 2 features New Orleans as one of its stages.
- James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, a James Bond video game, is partly set in New Orleans.
- Hitman: Blood Money, the level "Murder of Crows" is set in New Orleans.
[edit] See also
- New Orleans Square
- The category Fictional characters from New Orleans
[edit] External links
- New Orleans article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki